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Felling Cedar Tree Thirty Miles East of Seattle, 76 feet in Circumference, 18 in From Ground

Date

1906

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Kinsey was a professional photographer who earned his living documenting the woodcutters who conquered the forests of the American West, one tree at a time. The magnitude of their task is visible in this image of a cedar, where the chopping axes look like matchsticks in relation to the girth of the trunk. Lamentably, the now vanished forests attest to the fortitude and tenacity of these pioneers.

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